The Way Things Turn

...You don't need to do anything, because if you  see yourself in the correct way, you are all as  much extraordinary phenomena of natur...

You have to cultivate an attitude to life where you're  not trying to get anything out of it. You pick up a pebble on the beach, look at...

Muddy water is best cleared  by leaving it alone. ~ Alan Watts 

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. ~ Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed  concepts of the way the world is,  you find it is far more subtle,  and far more miraculous than you t...

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer  over the suffering. ~ Alan Watts

The attitude of faith is to let go, and become  open to truth, whatever  it may turn out to be. ~ Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. ~ Alan Watts

Meditation is the discovery  that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ Alan Watts

You have to cultivate an attitude to life where you're not trying to get anything  out of it.  You pick up a pebble on the  beach, look ...

I had a discussion with a great master...about  working to translate Zen books into English… he said, "That's a waste of time. If y...

This is what Zen means by being detached –– not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked,  a...

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life –– the strife,  the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin  ...

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.  And exactly the same thing is true i...

The only way to  make sense  out of change is  to plunge into it,  move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts

The more a thing tends  to be permanent,  the more it tends to be lifeless. ~ Alan Watts

The meaning of being alive is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around i...

Did you ever notice that  when you give things away,  you keep getting more?  That, as you create a vacuum,  more flows in?  ...

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. ~ Alan Watts

The art of living...is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being...